Game depending on skill



A ril 13,1926. 1,580,783

F. HOLST GAME DEPENDING ON SKILL Filed Oct. 8. 1925 Im/Entmn Patented Apr. 13, 1926 UNITED STATES FRIEDRI CI'I'HOLST, OF ROSTOCK, GERMANY.

GAME DEPENDING ON SKILL.

Application filed October 8, 1925. Serial No. 61,318.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnrnnmorr l-loLsr, a citizen of the German Republic, residing at Rostock, in the State of Prussia, in Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games Depending on Skill (German application if: 13,429 filed September 23, 1924), of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to iinproven'ients in games depending on skill in which balls roll down a channelled board upon a hori zontal surface, and drop through holes foreseen in this surface, to appear again in one of the numbered compartments. It depends upon the skillfulness of the player to start the balls rolling down the board to obtain higher or lower numbers.

I attain these objects by the arrangement and shape of the boards illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the game on the line 1l, Fig '2; and

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the game, and

Fig. 3 is a part of the tront view of the game.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views. A casing 64 is connected to a channelled board 6 by means of a support is a strut m and two hooks 0. Opposite the board 6 a curved deflector 0 in front of the back side of the casing and a depressed horizontal platform at between said board Z) and plate 0 form the path of the balls used forplaying the game. The halls rolling down right or left of said platform (Z enter one of the round holes seen in the horizontal surface 6 through which they drop into the box and rolling over a sloping bottom 9 leave the box through other round openings h in front of the box falling into one of the compartmentsi which are numbered as shown in the drawing.

I am aware that prior to my invention 4 games depending on skill have been made in which balls are used to play the game.

I therefore do not claim such a combination broadly; but I claim:

The combination in a game depending on skill, of a wooden casing, a channelled board connected to it, a curved deflector at the front of the back side of said casing, a de pressed horizontal platform between said curved deflector and the channelled board, a horizontal surface having round holes in this surface a sloping bottom underneath these holes on which balls used for playing the game can drop, round openings-in front of the box and numbered compartments to receive said balls, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I' aflix my signature.

FRIEDRICH HOLST. 

